She ate all the biscuits

What did you do/say?

I'd have stopped making cake, put everything away and said 'right you ate all the chocolate we don't have enough for the cake so we can't make cake now' and then taken her to do something else, somewhere else, so its a clear end to the cake making context.

One a day? But that restrictiveness goes against what a lot on this thread are saying - that we shouldn't restrict food.

And it seems as if OP is already pretty generous and laid back with her D's treats, so it may confuse her more now, for such strict restrictions.

The problem is the daughter's lack of self-regulation, not what she is allowed.

Start establishing a rule for everyone of 1 biscuit a day

. I think it's essential for kids to understand that eating a whole cake, or most of a pack of biscuits or a while big bag of sweets is not at all acceptable or good for them

Could always buy a lot of biscuits,.put them down in front of her and say go on then. Might totally sicken her.

My youngest snuck a bag of Doritos once and decorated the passage when he ate too many. He's never touched them since.

Her eating everything in one go is not normal. So I think it might work better to have one thing, such as biscuits, always in the house. But to agree a clear rule with yoy and DH that is 'you can only have biscuits when mum or dad says yes and 2 a day is the most we'll say yes to' or similar. You shouldn't have to hide food from kids. They need to understand self control and sharing and at 7 they are perfectly able to understand this. I think it's essential for kids to understand that eating a whole cake, or most of a pack of biscuits or a while big bag of sweets is not at all acceptable or good for them.

What absolute nonsense.

Are you being serious 🤣🤣

@CurlewKate

so daughter wouldn’t eat them all and leave none for anyone else. Obviously.

Its hard at that age
Anti diet kids on instagram is really good. similar issue with child in my family, enough was never enough. Tried free access to stop making it forbidden fruit, didn't help. He grew out of it. Xxx

Can't believe how many posters are trying to pin this on the OP and not recognising that every child is different and what works for one doesn't work for all.
We have one food seeker who constantly eats bits and bobs that he can find, and just even carries the pack of biscuits around. And the other is a total feaster and would probably eat one massive meal a day of one food if left to his own devices.
Luckily it's easy to keep both of them on a reasonably balanced diet, but it certainly is more luck as it is judgement.
I would suggest to the OP to try to give more control to your child, I found talking to my children about 5 a day and healthy eating helped them to take a bit more responsibility. Maybe even a chart like the eat well plate where they can fill in for food ideas and tick off what they had. Then the attention is on what food to choose from rather than to avoid.
Also the good thing about biscuits is they are ready made, so it could help to have some ready made other foods around.
Also to stave off hunger maybe build in more snacks, we do fruit on the go to take the edge off.
I'm sure you've tried a lot of the already but just to throw some ideas your way! And good luck.

Absolute rubbish. You can put your man hating credentials down now.

Why were you in the shower when you were supposed to be looking after her??

Hiding food and restricting, making it forbidden is always going to make most people binge it when they find it, kids are no worse.

you need to be able to have a healthy attitude to this stuff, make it no different to other food, where she can have a small amount and learns to self restrict,

righr now it seems a lot of damage is done, but you’re going to really have to stop hiding food like this, start working on portion control,talk to her properly about how it’s not restricted but a biscuit or two is fine.

This thread would not exist if HE ate all the biscuits.

A small boy would be celebrated for finding the hidden biccies and called a "cheeky little monkey".

When a girl does the same thing it's viewed as an anomaly and she must be punished to get her to behave like "a good little girl".

Someone even went so far as to suggest she may be neurodiverse...
How else could you explain this egregious behaviour?

There are lots of reasons why obesity is on the increase in the UK, I was just highlighting this one in particular as per the original post.

Perhaps say ‘well next time you won’t get any’, unless you promise you won’t take and eat things without asking first again, as she seems to know she shouldn’t have eaten them, and explain that amount is very bad for her …

Have a look online. Info is all there.

Get a life.
This is the most ridiculous thread I've read on MN.

Child knows sweets/treats in house.
Child finds sweets/treats and eats them.

Absolutely nothing wrong with your little girl by the sound of it!

I was the same and still can’t get enough of sweet things. I can easily eat a whole cheesecake or malt loaf 🙈 despite being slim.

Still, if you’re looking for solutions, maybe say to her, you can have (for example) 2-3 biscuits, then if you want more, you have to wait 20 minutes and drink a glass of water in that time. Apparently that’s how long it takes the brain to register fullness. So she can learn a bit of impulse control. I’ve tried that in previous years when I was tempted to eat all the kids Easter eggs and it worked. This year, I got my husband to hide the Easter eggs from me 😂

She isnt denied them

What scientists are these? Because all the research that we know about shows us that children who have fat parents, who have a poor diet full of calorie dense but nutrition light food and eat a lot of UPFs and lack vegetables in their diet are overweight children who grow into overweight adults.

OP has set out she provides a balanced diet, not one of restriction or fuel only.

Scientists have discovered that children who were denied treats as in sweets chocolate, crisps etc are more likely to become obese throughout adulthood.
Im not saying it was the right thing to do but my 3 brothers and myself had a limited amount of sweets per day and was always allowed to have a biscuit if we were hungry between meals when young, we are all slim, fit healthy adult's now, as are my teenagers who were brought up the same way .
I doubt she would've eaten the rest.of the pack had they not been such a rare phenomenon!

She's 7 - it's completely normal behaviour.
I'd be more concerned if a 7 year old didn't use their initiative.

I think your reasonable worry is she has a high appetite and this will easily lead to her becoming overweight. I think the only thing I do is be very mindful of the foods that are addictive and fattening so they are not available.dont buy them don’t have them in the house. It is too much for her to learn to control her appetite at that age. Hopefully any binging habit will go away. It does mean the rest if you will have to go without easy snacks but no bad thing. Of course you will have days for treats it sounds like you operate a bit like this anyway just tighten a bit more. It is a real thing. It’s not a moral failing but can be controlled a bit by you because habits are hard to break.